This piece of fabric is a sketch I drew of the topography of our orchard for my quilt ‘Tree Topography.’ This is about as neutral as I get!

And this piece of fabric is made from a picture I took of a piece of fabric that my daughter, Mercedi, hand dyed. All the textures in this piece make me drool! It’s not very common that I only use two pieces of fabric in a quilt but I think there are enough colors in ‘rainbow’ to make up for that.

Before I knew it, the top of the quilt was finished!

Now … what thread do you I use? Besides the obvious choice of using aurifil thread for quilting – choosing the color was going to be the hard part. Wouldn’t every one of these look fabulous!

And so that’s what I did – I used all of them ! I decided to quilt my rainbow quilt in a rainbow of aurifil threads!

I went diagonally across the quilt using a fancy serpentine stitch. It was so much fun! You can learn more about this technique in the Craftsy Class ‘Creative Quilting with your Walking Foot’ by Jacquie Gering.

The only thing I wish is that I would have a had a bit more brilliant of a yellow. I know it would have still blended like the yellow I used did, but I think it might have shown up in the lighter sections a bit better. I’m so in love with the serpentine stitch!

I bound this quilt simply in black. It just needed something to ‘stop’ the color and I’m beyond happy with the results!

I’ve decided I need to make a ‘To Do’ list first thing in the morning every day! I’ve had a crazy productive morning with just four (out of fourteen) things left on today’s lift! After I publish this post I’ll be down to just three things! Wowza!

Here are the first eight 30” block layouts in EQ7. It’s so exciting to see there are only four to go!

We’re three-quarters of the way there! Woot!

I have to admit that I have not finished my block for the 9th layout yet. My pieces are all cut and ready to be put together but with Capri’s birthday party this weekend it just didn’t happen. I will finish it up soon though and post so you can see it! I can guarantee that I’ll be using some of my alternate options for the 5” #scrappycrownalong blocks instead of making them all Crown of Thorns!

Layout 10 will be posted next Monday. Just three more layouts to go and we’ll have enough blocks for a king size quilt!

Good morning everyone! We’re enjoying a fairly lazy morning here at the Lapacek household. The whole family is getting prepared for the next Project QUILTING challenge to begin. It’s always an exciting time!

AND, if you finish the challenge in the time allotted your name will also be added into the final hat at the completion of the season for an opportunity to win the GRAND PRIZE! Have you checked out the Grand Prize lately? It includes over $350 worth of INCREDIBLE prizes from the Fat Quarter Shop, Aurifil, FabricsNQuilts, Marcia’s Crafty Sewing & Quilting, Creek Side Stitches and Laundry Basket Quilts! Inspiration, quilting, fun AND Prizes!? Can it get much better?

I would still love if everyone posted to the Flickr Group as that makes making mosaics and looking over things much easier, but it is no longer required.

There is now a ‘Challenge Quilts’ Facebook Group you can join in on to share your thoughts, questions, or whatever related to quilting challenges. You can always post progress pictures there if you want too!

Please use the hastag #pq6 when posting on social networking sites to help spread the word

If this is your first time participating in Season 6 or you haven’t emailed me yet … Please email Kim at {lapaceksorchard at gmail dot com} with ‘PROJECT QUILTING SIX’ in the subject line so that Kim can keep you updated on the behind the scenes going-ons and get all her records straight.

PRIZE 4

PRIZE 5

PRIZE 6

“Quilting Gift Certificate” for $30.00 off the Quilting on a Baby size quilt or larger. (Baby, Lap, Twin. Full, Queen, or King) from Marcia’s Crafty Sewing & Quilting.The Gift Certificate will be good for 4 months starting one month after the challenge ends. Excluding the Month of December for using the gift certificate. The quilting gift certificate is transferable to another person, so you can share it with a friend, if you’d like. Marcia will do an estimate based on the size of the winner's quilt top, quilting choices, thread choices, and batting and if they would like to purchase backing fabric from me. Winner can send backing fabric and batting with their quilt top, but I do have it available. This way the winner will have a good estimate of the value of your quilting prize.

PRIZE 7

Marcia would also like to giveaway to a separate winner a prize of one of her original patterns(value $8.00). Here are the six quilt patterns the winner will get to chose from:

Happy Saturday everyone! It’s another cold one today here in Wisconsin. I’m hoping March brings some warmer weather … at least above zero.
49 beautiful quilts were made for the Project QUILTING Have a Heart Challenge! Let’s see who won people’s choice and the random prizes.

PRIZE 1

PRIZE 2

“Quilting Gift Certificate” for $30.00 off the Quilting on a Baby size quilt or larger. (Baby, Lap, Twin. Full, Queen, or King) from Marcia’s Crafty Sewing & Quilting.The Gift Certificate will be good for 4 months starting one month after the challenge ends. Excluding the Month of December for using the gift certificate. The quilting gift certificate is transferable to another person, so you can share it with a friend, if you’d like. Marcia will do an estimate based on the size of the winner's quilt top, quilting choices, thread choices, and batting and if they would like to purchase backing fabric from me. Winner can send backing fabric and batting with their quilt top, but I do have it available. This way the winner will have a good estimate of the value of your quilting prize.
Congratulations Quilted Delights!PRIZE 3
Marcia would also like to giveaway to a separate winner a prize of one of her original patterns(value $8.00).
Here are the six quilt patterns the winner will get to chose from:

PRIZE 9

PRIZE 10

A good friend of mine, Trish Frankland of Quilt Chicken, recently won a beyond amazing prize from the Bad Ass Quilter’s Society to celebrate reaching 8,000 followers on facebook.
From her prize she’d like to pass on the Quiltspirations! Cards created by LoveBugStudio’s on to our last winner of the day …Lucky Duck Dreams!
Congratulations to all the winners! Check your inboxes and if you don’t hear from me by Monday don’t hesitate to contact me!
The next challenge goes up tomorrow at noon!

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